This stamp lot contains a Scott album from 1959 that has a mint light hinged set of Zeppelin airmails (C13 - 15) and numerous other stamps, including eight stamps from the 1893 Columbian Exposition (#230 - 238, with seven used and #237 mint light hinged), a Hudson-Fulton mlh block of four from 1909, #548 and 549 mlh blocks of four, a full set of mlh plate blocks of six of the National Parks set from 1934 (the 7c block of six is missing the plate number, otherwise the set is complete), numerous souvenir sheets all mlh (including #730, 731, 735, and 750), the album has 107 mlh plate blocks of four, 15 mlh plate blocks of six, 2 mlh plate blocks of 9 (so two mlh plate blocks of six with extra stamps), 82 mlh blocks of four, two mlh blocks of six, 42 used stamps, and they’re basically all commemorative issues. The album is in great condition too: it’s clean and attractive, well organized, and all the pages are protected by an archival-type see-through plastic.  

There is a small notebook with numerous plate blocks and blocks of four, including 7 Prexy blocks from 1938 and a 19c Prexy plate block, as well as a plate block of six of CE1, all mnh, and the lot contains two airmail stamps (#C4 mnh and C5 used) in stamp shop protective sleeves, a hand-made circuit book with 35 early used US stamps, including three used 8c Columbian Exposition stamps (#236). (A circuit book was usually passed around at a stamp club for members to look at and buy stamps cheaply.) There are also 238 mnh plate blocks in glassine envelopes, including several from the Liberty Issue of 1954 (two each of the 30c, 40c, 50c, and $1 plate blocks), and over 500 used stamps off cover, with many from the 1930’s to the 1950’s and some duplicates, as well as nearly 50 somewhat better used singles in a salmon-colored envelope.  

There is an advertising cover from 1862 depicting the Capitol building in Washington (no  stamp on the cover), 9 other covers (1934 - 1960), US Scott #397 on a post card from 1915 addressed to Alfred Crossley aboard the U.S.S. Cyclops in 1915; the Cyclops was a coal tender and cargo-carrying ship of the U.S. Navy operating on the east coast and in the Caribbean. Launched in 1910, she served without incident for several years, but tragically she disappeared at sea with all hands lost in March 1918. There’s also a Christmas seal on a post card from 1916 (WX18) and a first day post card of Apollo 8 from Houston dated 1969.  

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